Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, (with Notes Upon Ceylon); an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826; and Letters Written in India, Volume 1John Murray, 1828 |
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Page 11
... Trees used as Gallows - Bhooteahs --- Kemapon subject to Earthquakes- Havelbagh - Vegetation in Keinaoon - Animals ... Tree - Moradabad - Making Ice - Yogis and Tigers - Canes set on fire by Friction - Party of supposed Bheels - Thugs 11 ...
... Trees used as Gallows - Bhooteahs --- Kemapon subject to Earthquakes- Havelbagh - Vegetation in Keinaoon - Animals ... Tree - Moradabad - Making Ice - Yogis and Tigers - Canes set on fire by Friction - Party of supposed Bheels - Thugs 11 ...
Page 41
... trees dark like firs , and jungle about the height of young coppice wood , of a very fresh and vivid green . With a large glass I could distinguish something like deer grazing or lying down amid the swampy grass , and also some ruinous ...
... trees dark like firs , and jungle about the height of young coppice wood , of a very fresh and vivid green . With a large glass I could distinguish something like deer grazing or lying down amid the swampy grass , and also some ruinous ...
Page 49
... trees , and the exuberant and neglected vigour of the soil , teeming with life and food , neglected , as it were , out of pure abundance , would have been striking under any circum- stances ; they were still more so to persons just ...
... trees , and the exuberant and neglected vigour of the soil , teeming with life and food , neglected , as it were , out of pure abundance , would have been striking under any circum- stances ; they were still more so to persons just ...
Page 50
... trees , plantains , and flowering shrubs ; the muddy ponds were covered with the broad - leaved lotus , and the adjacent " paddy , " or rice - fields , were terminated by a wood of tall coco - nut trees , between whose stems the light ...
... trees , plantains , and flowering shrubs ; the muddy ponds were covered with the broad - leaved lotus , and the adjacent " paddy , " or rice - fields , were terminated by a wood of tall coco - nut trees , between whose stems the light ...
Page 51
... tree not very unlike the acacia , the leaves of which are used to keep moths from books and clothes . Another I ... trees , which covered the greater part of the shore ; a few cows were tethered on the banks , and some large brick ...
... tree not very unlike the acacia , the leaves of which are used to keep moths from books and clothes . Another I ... trees , which covered the greater part of the shore ; a few cows were tethered on the banks , and some large brick ...
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